Jun 3 2012: You can have an ethnic attachment without necessarily feeling alienated from other nationalities. Also, national attachment does not necessarily exclude ethnic attachment. For example, many Swiss groups are very attached to their ethnicities but are equally very nationalistic. In developing nations, negative ethnicity has however impacted negatively on national development. Negative ethnicity is when one ethnic group (most cases the one that provide the political leadership) excludes others in matters of state and sharing of the national cake and also victimizes others on the basis of their ethnic belonging.
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